Bridge in Deerpark, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Bridge in Deerpark spreads its stone supports wide at the bottom to carry the railway over the road. It has the stance of a man told to hold a ladder, then informed halfway up that the ladder is a train.

Single-arch cut-limestone railway bridge over road, opened 1853. Coursed rock-faced cut-limestone walls (including to tapered buttressed abutment walls) with cast-iron tie plates, and cut-limestone coping to parapets supporting replacement steel railings. Single segmental arch with limestone ashlar stringcourse to spring of arch, cut-limestone voussoirs, and squared rubble stone soffits having remains of render over. Sited spanning road with random rubble stone retaining walls to banks having rubble stone coping.

An elegantly-composed bridge representing an important element of the mid nineteenth-century transport heritage of County Kilkenny on account of the associations with the development of the Waterford and Maryborough [Portlaoise] Branch extension of the Great Southern and Western Railway line by the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company. Exhibiting the particularly high quality stone masonry associated with such projects the robust rock-faced detailing lends a pleasing textured visual effect to the composition while refined dressings further enhance the aesthetic appeal of the site.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12326016

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